[ADXA] D4UM - CAPE VERDE

[Richard Roderick]

Reports are he was in auto mode calling someone over and over for a long time. DXCC rules say  you have to be an attended station. This auto stuff while one goes and does other things has to stop and the DXCC desk needs to step up and disqualify.


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> On Aug 24, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Don Banta <k5db at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> SQ9UM is the operator for this station (hence the “UM” suffix of the Cape Verde call sign.)
>  
> I worked this guy when he was in Corsica as TK/SQ9UM a year ago:
>  
> 
>  
> I requested and paid for confirmation via ClubLog OQRS.  I also sent him a card via the
> buro (which of course can take a while, if at all).  After 6 months I sent him an e-mail in Feb and
> again in June asking him when he would be uploading his end of the QSOs to LotW for
> confirmation…….no replies and no confirmation.  I then sent him an e-mail this past week
> (if he even reads his e-mails) and chewed his backside, telling him that it is unacceptable
> to take peoples’ money and not confirm.  I told him I would never work him again. I also told him
> I would pass a warning to my state DX organization, which I am doing now. 
>  
> Perhaps some of you have had better luck with this individual, but I won’t bother with him
> any further.  I do need Cape Verde for a few more band points, but I will be patient for someone
> else to activate from there and take my chances for confirmations from them. 
>  
> I’m just advising you of what has occurred with me.  Whether you want to chance sending
> him funds for a confirmation will be your choice, of course.  I, however, am done with him.
>  
> 73 – Don K5DB
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